Here’s good news for Jon Stewart fans — and who’s not a Jon Stewart fan? The multiple Emmy Award-winning comedian has signed a multi-year partnership with AppleTV+ to return to television with a current affairs series. The 57-year-old New Yorker hosted The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2015. This new project is
How do you keep daytime TV shows rooted in live studio interactions going in this era of safety measures and social distancing? These were the challenges facing CBS and the producers of The Price is Right and Let’s Make a Deal. Both shows return with new, post-COVID episodes Tuesday night in the first of a
Friends in the States have been asking when they can start watching JANN, the CTV comedy starring Jann Arden. Well, great news as Randy Lennox would say. The singer-songwriter can be your girl too now America: Hulu has secured exclusive streaming rights to the series. All 14 first and second season episodes will beging streaming
The past seven or eight months have been hard on families all around the world. Folks have been dealing with serious illness and, in way too many cases, the loss of a family member. Then there is mental fatigue, coping with isolation, job loss and relentless uncertainty. Television has largely provided a diversion for the
The rock ‘n’ roll era is over at Bell Media with Monday’s announcement of the departure of Randy Lennox. Bell Group President and Vice Chair Wade Oosterman will assume operational leadership following Bell Media President Lennox’s departure January 4. No reason was given for the transition. In a release, Mirko Bibic, President and CEO of BCE and Bell Canada, thanked
I’m sometimes asked to name the best TV show ever to come out of Canada. The first that jumps to mind every time is SCTV. The SCTV of Canadian drama, however — although it was also funny as hell — is Slings & Arrows. As usual, it takes a foreign network to tell us it’s
It has been a year-and-a-half since Star Trek: Discovery last boldly went on it’s most recent TV voyage. It finally returns Thursday with 13 new episodes on CTV Sci-Fi Channel as well as CBS AllAccess. In addition, Crave will start streaming it Friday The shot-in-Toronto series has sat so long the calendar has almost caught
Congratulations to my ol’ pal Slawko Klymkiw (left with CFC chair Christina Jennings) who announced Thursday that he is retiring next spring as CEO of the Canadian Film Centre. In 15 years of impecable leadership, Klymkiw greatly bolstered the house that Norman Jewison built in terms of fundraising and reputation, overseeing the introduction of valued